Telluride at Dartmouth: Le Havre
This post is the last in my chronicle of attending the Telluride at Dartmouth program at the Hopkins Center for the Arts. Days 1 & 2 ( A Dangerous Method and Albert Nobbs ) can be found here , Day 3 ( We Need to Talk About Kevin ) can be found here , and Day 4 ( In Darkness) can be found here . The final film of the six shown in the Telluride at Dartmouth program was Le Havre , written and directed by Aki Kaurismäki . (As I expected, I wasn't able to get over to Hanover for The Kid with the Bike , alas.) It was a good choice for a concluding film because the program had been, overall, rather bleak -- enjoyable, powerful, illuminating, but seldom uplifting. Le Havre is a fairy tale and a feel-good movie, one that tackles terrifying and complex subjects whimsically and is so determined to finish on a good note that everybody's ending is a happy one. It's naive to the point of being Panglossian , but so darn nice about it that it seems ch...